EPISODE · Aug 3, 2023 · 3 MIN
Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre by Liz O'riordan
from Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Larissa Abshire
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre Author: Liz O'riordan Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre Author: Liz O'riordan Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.
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